Help! New Hard Drive initialized but cannot be formatted!

[Michael Lau]

I recently bought a new 1TB HDD (Western Digital WD1003FZEX) and I cant get it to format. I've tried going onto My Computer and formatting it there, but it gives me a message saying "Windows was unable to complete the format".

I have also tried going into disk management and formatting or partitioning it but there are no options to do anything on that disk.

HELP!

 

[ModernWarfare]

well i its a corrupted hdd send it back for warranty and have it replaced sorry man.

 

[Michael Lau]

well i its a corrupted hdd send it back for warranty and have it replaced sorry man.

okay thanks

 

[Michael Lau]

Hey! I just wanted to let you know I fixed it! The hard drive was fine and working. What I did was reinitialized the drive by going into diskpart.exe then typing the following:

"Open a command prompt with ELEVATED privilege (Administrator)
DISKPART
LIST DRIVE
SELECTE DRIVE <DRIVE NUMBER> (EXAMPLE: SELECT DISK 2)
CLEAN
EXIT"

I then went back into disk management and initialized it with the wizard and it worked!

Just a response for anyone who needs help in the future!

Thanks for the help btw MordernWarfare!

 

[ModernWarfare]

wow good job man im glad you fixed it and may also help others .